The shadow coloring is so much different than the actual bird. The water might be taking on the shades of all the dead mangrove leaves around.
This Reddish Egret wandered past us down in a cut. Reddish are most always out in open water where they can fish and dance. Maybe because of the drought but we found them in all types of areas.
Cleaning a backup and came across an image…went down a rabbit hole for a while.
I usually don’t do many cloud photographs, however this had some land and shore buildings giving some depth. Not to mention the big single cloud dead center 😄.
OM-1 mk2, OM 12-200, LightRoom, DxO Filmpack
A scene with something for everyone.
There’s tall grass, palms, and pines. The foreground has Snowy Egrets, White Ibis, Great Egrets.
A busy spot.
Much brown because of the freeze, but the colors did work for many of my photographs. The big Heron looked nice up against all the rust brown here.
Marshes have all types of wildlife. Some we expect, and some that pop up once in a while. Wild Boars, Pigs, being one of them.
This one was feeding on the Mangrove roots, probably a source of fresh water in the roots.
Spanish explorers released pigs while traveling the coastline. Thanks to them we have plenty from Florida, through Georgia, and into South Carolina. I’m sure they have moved on elsewhere too. I believe this is a small female.
The boar in South Carolina appear to be a different type of hybrid, all wild pigs are invasive hybrids. South Carolina had Russian Ridgeback Boar released at one time also. They are a larger tucked boar than the ones released by Spanish explorers.
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The dirt road that runs behind the Florida Space Center launch pads ultimately winds along a salt water lagoon. There are hundreds of Osprey around the area. However most sit up on power line poles, not a pretty picture.
The Biolab road, when open, is the place I find Osprey perched low of old trees watching the water. A much better place for a decent photograph.
Not a very dramatic bird, but is close to the ‘Gallinule’ in habits. So does tend to scurry away at times.
However, these birds travel in decent size flocks, called rafts. A raft of Coots is fun to see since they move in a coordinated flow.
Northern Shovelers pushing through and a confused looking Tricolored. After all, he was there first.
And I was photo bombed by some Shovelers 😊.
